Subject: Re: Disk Problems(sysinst)
To: David Guynn <dguynn@geocities.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/15/1999 12:27:46
> Maxtor 91360D8 | Automatically generated label:\
> :dt=unknown:se#512:ns#63:nt#16:sc#1008:nc#16383:\
> :pc#6313544:oc#20209770:\
> :pd#26563824:od#0:\
> :pe#20209707:oe#63:te=MSDOS:\
> :pf#6313544:of#20209770:
This says you have a 10347369984 byte (9.6Gb) DOS partition, and a
3232534528 byte (3Gb) Correct?
My offering:
Maxtor91360D8 | Maxtor 91360D8:\
:dt=unknown:se#512:ns#63:nt#16:sc#1008:nc#16383:\
:pa#204624:oa#20209770:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:pb#204624:ob#20414394:tb=swap:\
:pc#6313544:oc#20209770:\
:pd#26563824:od#0:\
:pe#204624:oe#20619018:te=4.2BSD:be#8192:fe#1024:\
:pf#5699672:of#20823642:tf=4.2BSD:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
:pg#20209707:og#63:tg=MSDOS:
> By the way: The disk is partitioned, just not labeled
Misunderstanding due to the multiple meanings of "partioned". I have randomly
decided to partition it as
a: 100Mb /
b: 100Mb swap
e: 100Mb /var
f: 2.7Gb /usr
or:
/dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/wd0e /var ffs rw 1 2
/dev/wd0f /usr ffs rw 1 2
/dev/wd0g /dos msdos rw,noauto 0 0
which is what you might like to put into /etc/fstab. (So that if you create
a /dos directory, typing "mount /dos" would allow you access to your dos
"partition")
One way of labeling your disk with the above offering might be to save it
on a dos floppy as say "mydisk", then
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt2
cat /mnt2/mydisk >> /etc/disktab
disklabel -w -r wd0 Maxtor91260D8
umount /mnt2
newfs /dev/rwd0a
newfs /dev/rwd0e
newfs /dev/rwd0f
fsck /dev/rwd0a
fsck /dev/rwd0e
fsck /dev/rwd0f
mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
mkdir /mnt/var
mkdir /mnt/usr
mount /dev/wd0e /var
mount /dev/wd0f /usr
Then it is "just" a matter of untarring the snapshot à la
tar -xzf kern.tgz -C /mnt
tar -xzf base.tgz -C /mnt
whereever you may have these sets... Are you on a network etc.
cd /mnt/dev; sh MAKEDEV all
get the above fstab into /mnt/etc...
Good luck,
Patrick